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00:00 Chapter 01: Sherlock Holmes has a Visitor
05:54 Chapter 02: Dr Huxtable’s Story
15:02 Chapter 03: Holmes and Watson go North
22:30 Chapter 04: The body on the Moor
33:34 Chapter 05: A Visit to the Green Man
43:38 Chapter 06: Sherlock Holmes Talks to the Duke
49:41 Chapter 07: The Dukes Son
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Chapter 1 Sherlock Holmes has a Visitor when visitors came to see Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street they often did surprising things sometimes they put their heads in their hands and cried sometimes they talked and talked and couldn’t stop and sometimes they just sat there and didn’t say a word but nobody was more surprising than Dr thorny Croft
Huble he was a large Man Tall well-dressed and important looking he came into the room walked to one of the big chairs and suddenly fell into it he sat there with his eyes closed looking white and ill I ran to get some water for him then
I got my doctor’s bag and looked at him carefully what is it Watson said Holmes he’s all right I think I said he’s just very very tired and probably hungry too Holmes looked in the man’s pockets and found a train ticket from mlon in the north of England
Mlon that’s a long way said Holmes it’s not 12:00 yet so he probably left home before or 5:00 this morning after a minute or two the man began to move and his eyes opened a second later he got quickly to his feet his face was Now red and
Unhappy Mr hobes I am so sorry I forgot to eat or drink anything this morning that’s why I felt ill when you feel better I began I’m better now thank you said our visitor and I want very much to talk to Mr Holmes to ask him something please Mr Holmes come back to
Mlon with me by the next train I’m sorry that’s not possible said her homes I’m working on two important cases the ferah case and the abeni case I cannot leave London at the moment important cases our visitor cried but this case is very important too you know about the kidnapping of the
Son of the Duke of holderness three days ago what the government Minister yes that’s him so you didn’t know it’s not in the newspapers yet that’s true but Sherlock Holmes always hears news before other people I thought Holmes went to get one of his books and began to read the page about
The Duke of holderness holderness sixth Duke wife Edith daughter of Lord gray one child Lord Arthur saltire houses in London Lancashire and Wales government Minister for this for that for the other well well said at homes he’s one of the greatest men in the country one of the greatest and one of the
Richest said Dr huble I know Mr Holmes that you don’t work for money but I must tell you this the Duke is offering £5,000 for news of his son and another £1,000 for the name of his kidnapper that said Holmes is a most interesting offer he looked at me
Watson I think we are going with Dr huxel back to the north of England this afternoon Holmes then looked at Dr huxel now sir tell me everything what happened when did it happen how did it happen and why does Dr thornicroft huble come to ask for my help three days
Later our visitor drank some water and began his story chapter 2 Dr huxtable’s story My school the prary school near mlon is the best school for young boys in England began Dr huxel we have the sons of Lord SS Lord lever and of many other important people people 3 weeks ago Mr James Wilder the Duke of holder’s secretary came to see
Me the Duke he said wanted to send his son the 10-year-old Lord suti to my school on the 1st of May young Lord suti arrived he’s a nice boy and he soon began to like school life and to make friends his life at home you see was not
Very happy we all know about the Duke and his wife The Duchess of course now lives in the south of France she left the Duke about 3 months ago I think but the boy loved his mother and was very unhappy when she left because of this the Duke sent him to my
School and after two weeks with us he was much happier then on the night of the 13th of May he disappeared the way to his bedroom is through another larger room two older boys sleep there one of them never sleeps very well and he heard and saw nothing that
Night so young Arthur did not go out through that room his window was open and there is Ivy all up the wall of the house it is easy to get out of the window and down the ivy to the ground so we think that he went out that
Way he was in his usual school things we think a short black coat and dark blue trousers we looked all through his room very carefully but we found nothing strange nothing unusual when I learned the news at 7:00 on Tuesday morning I called everybody into the the big school
Room then we leared more bad news haiger the German teacher was missing too his room is not far from Arthur’s room haiger went down the ivy we know this because we found his footprints on the ground under the window we know too that he was only in his coat trousers and
Shoes because we found his shirt and his socks on the floor of his room and he took his bicycle with him heiger came to the school a year ago he’s a good teacher but the boys don’t like him because he isn’t very friendly so Mr Holmes we have two missing
People it’s now Thursday and there’s still no news of them Holmes took out a little notebook and began to write things down the boy didn’t go home of course he said no no we asked at holderness Hall at once said Dr Huxtable the Duke is very afraid for his
Son and I am the unhappiest man in England Mr Holmes you are a famous detective please help me you make things very difficult for me Holmes said how can I find marks in the ivy or on the ground after 3 days why didn’t you come to me at
Once because of the Duke Dr huble said he doesn’t like people talking about his unhappy family life and what are the police doing well they heard about a boy and a young man at the station early on Tuesday they looked for them and last night they found them in
Liverpool but it was a man and his son going to visit a friend we lost three days because of that and last night I couldn’t sleep so I took the first train down to London this morning well Dr huxel some more questions said Holmes did the boy take German lessons
No so he didn’t know the German teacher well then he probably never spoke to him said Dr huxel H said Holmes does the boy have a bicycle no was any other bicycle missing no so did the German teacher ride away on his bicycle in the night with the boy on his
Back I don’t think so but what happened to the bicycle now uh what about visitors did the boy have any visitors the day before no did he get any letters yes one letter from his father do you open the boy’s letters Dr huble no then how do you know that the letter
Was from the father I know the Duke’s handwriting and he says that he wrote a letter to his son did the boy get any letters from France no I never saw any do you understand me Dr huxel hes said did someone take the boy away or did the boy go
Freely because he had a letter from France perhaps I don’t know said Dr huble he only had letters from his father I think were father and son very friendly the Duke is not um not a very friendly man Mr Holmes he’s not a bad father but he is a government Minister
And has a lot of things to do so the boy felt more friendly to his mother yes did he say that no did the Duke tell you then oh no the Duke never talks about things like that so how do you know Mr James Wilder the Duke’s secretary told me I see said
Holmes that last letter of the Dukes where is it now the boy took it with him Dr huble said it’s not in his room Mr Holmes our train leaves in half an hour right said Holmes he looked at me Watson let’s get ready and go off to the north with Dr
Huble perhaps we we can find some answers to this mystery chapter 3 Holmes and Watson go north it was dark when we arrived at Dr huxtable’s famous School in the Northern Hills we went quickly into the building out of the cold and at once someone ran up with news for Dr
Huble he looked very surprised the Duke is here he told us the Duke and Mr Wilder his secretary are in my office come and meet them the Govern government Minister was a tall man with a long thin face he had red hair and a great red
Beard he looked at us and did not smile next to him stood Mr Wilder a very young man he was small with blue eyes and a watchful face he spoke first the Duke is surprised Dr huble to see Mr Sherlock Holmes here he doesn’t want people to know about
This you know that so why didn’t you speak to the Duke before you went to London but we need help said Dr huble and I well said said the Duke Mr Holmes is here now and perhaps he can help us he looked at Holmes I’d like you to come and stay at
Holderness Hall Mr Holmes thank you sir said Holmes but I would like to stay near to the mystery here at the school can I ask you one or two questions perhaps of course said the duuk my questions are about The Duchess and about money said Holmes The Duchess knows nothing about
This said the Duke and nobody is asking me for money I see said Holmes you wrote a letter to your son before he disappeared when did you post it post it said Mr Wilder angrily the Duke does not post letters I put the letter into the post
Bag with all the other letters that day a minute or two later the Duke and Mr Wilder left homes then began at once to work on the case we looked carefully all through the boy’s bedroom and the German teachers room we looked at the ivy on the
Wall and we saw the footprints under the German teacher’s window but we leared nothing new Holmes then left the house and only came back after 11:00 he had with him a large map he brought it into my room and put it on the bed this case is beginning to get interesting Watson he
Said look at this map here is the school you see and here is the road so did the boy and the teacher go along the road when they left no whatson they did not how do you know that Holmes I asked because there was a policeman here
Look he was there from Midnight to 6: in the morning and he saw nobody on the road I spoke to him him this evening and here at the other end you see is the white horse in a woman there was ill and the family watched the road all night waiting for the
Doctor the doctor didn’t come until the morning and the family saw nobody on the road so the boy and the teacher did not go by road but Holmes what about the bicycle I asked yes Watson we must remember the bicycle of course but first let’s look to the South and the
North to the South we have a big river no bicycles there then and to the north we have the trees called ragged Shore and then a great Mo the lower Gil Mo and here is holderness Hall 16 kilm from the school by road but only 9 kilm across the
Mo no other houses until the Green Man in along the chest Field Road but the bicycle I said again yes yes Watson Holmes said it is possible to ride a bicycle across the mo difficult but possible just then Dr huble came quickly into the room news Mr Holmes he said excitedly I bring
News in his hands was a blue school hat look this is the boy’s hat one of my gardeners found it this evening where man where asked Holmes just north of ragged Shore said Dr huxel aha said Holmes what did I tell you Watson tomorrow we must walk walk North across the
Mo chapter 4 the body on the Mo very early the next morning I opened my eyes and saw Holmes next to my bed he was already dressed come what son he cried there is hot coffee ready for you we leave in 10 minutes by 6:00 we were through ragged Shore and half an hour later we were on Lower Gil
Moore across the middle of the Moore was a small River and the ground all around it was very wet we can easily see tracks in this wet ground said Holmes look carefully Watson we moved slowly across the mo looking at every centimeter of mud we found hundreds of sheep tracks
And once some cow tracks but no bicycle tracks and then at last we found something not far from The Little River right across some nice black mud was the track of a bicycle hurrah I cried we have it but Holmes did not look happy it’s a bicycle yes but not the
Bicycle every bicycle has different tires I know 42 different kinds of Tire this tire is a Dunlop but haider’s bicycle had Palmer tires the English teacher told me that so this is not haiger is it the boy then I asked probably not the boy didn’t take a bicycle with him said Holmes
He looked again at the track in the mud this track is going away from the school or perhaps to the school I said no no my dear Watson look at the tracks of the two tires are they the same um no I said one tire makes a deeper
Track and that’s the back wheel said Holmes because the rider of course sits over the back wheel the deeper track is the one on top so this bicycle went that way across the moall away from the school but who was the rider where did he come from we followed the Dunlop track back
Nearly to raggage sure then we lost it in some cow tracks Holmes sat down and thought for some minutes nope he said getting up we must leave this question for now back to the mud by the river Watson 2 hours later Holmes gave a happy
Cry I quickly ran over to him and looked down at a long thin track in the mud it was the Palmer Tire here is haiger cried Holmes let’s follow him Watson for a kilometer or more we followed the Palmer Tire North across the mo losing the track finding it again
Losing it and finding it suddenly the track stopped what happened here I said did he fall Holmes looked carefully on the ground then he moved to some small bushes with yellow flowers on them look he said quietly on one of the yellow flowers there was something red the dark brown read of
Blood Bad said Holmes bad what do I read here something or someone hit him he fell he stood up he got onto his bicycle again and rode away but there is no other track some cow tracks here but no footprints we must follow the blood Watson we soon found the bicycle and
Then behind a bush we saw a shoe and found a body there was blood on the man’s head and face and he was very very dead he had shoes on but no socks and we saw a night shirt under his open coat it was the German teacher poor man Holmes said
Quietly what shall we do Watson we can’t lose any more time but we must tell someone about this poor man shall I run back to the school I said no I need you with me Holmes stood up and looked around look he said there’s a Workman over
There he can go back to the school for us I went and got the Workman and Holmes wrote a note for Dr huble the poor Workman took one look at the body and began to run quickly down the hill to ragged Shore now said Holmes before we go on
Let’s think carefully for a minute what do we know so far first the boy left freely he was dressed he did not leave suddenly he wanted to go perhaps with someone perhaps not but the German teacher left without his socks and without his shirt so he left very suddenly that’s right I
Said and why did haiger go because from his bedroom window he saw the boy because he wanted to follow him and bring him back so far so good but why doesn’t heiger just run after the boy a man can easily run faster than a boy but heiger doesn’t do this he gets his
Bicycle he knows that he needs his bicycle why ah I said because the boy has a bicycle not so fast Watson think about it heiger dies 8 kilm from the school so the boy is moving very fast because it is 8 kilometers before a man on a bicycle can get near
Him and hiiga dies because someone hits him very hard on the head a boy can’t do that so there was someone with the boy a man let’s say but we looked very carefully at the mud all around poor haider’s body Watson and what did we find some cow tracks but nothing more no
Footprints from people no bicycle tracks homes I cried this is not possible very good Watson he said it’s not possible so something is wrong with my thinking what can it be perhaps I said haiger broke his head in a fall in mud Watson oh I don’t know I just don’t
Know come come Watson said Holmes every mystery has an answer but for now the Palmer Tire can tell us nothing more so we must go back to the Dunlop Tire we found the Dunlop track again and followed it North here there was very little mud and we lost the
Track across the mo we could now see holderness Hall some kilometers to our left and in front of us we could see the Chesterfield Road we walked down to the road and along to the Green Man Inn chapter 5 a visit to the Green Man when we were near the Inn Holmes suddenly Cried Out ah my foot I can’t stand on it help me Watson I took his arm and we walked slowly to the door of the Inn a man stood there smoking and watching us how are you Mr Reuben Hayes said
Holmes who are you and how do you know my name said the man he looked very unfriendly because it’s on the door of the Inn over your head said Holmes but can you help me Mr Hayes no I can’t but I need help I can’t put my foot to the
Ground well don’t put it to the ground Holmes smiled look he said it’s very important and I can offer you a pound for the use of a bicycle where do you want to go asked Mr Hayes to holderness Hall oh Friends of the Duke are you Mr
Hayes laughed looking at our muddy shoes and trousers Holmes laughed too well we are bringing him news of his lost son he said the boy is in Liverpool Mr Hay’s face went white then red oh he said carefully that’s um that’s good news I worked for the Duke once but he
Wasn’t good to me I don’t like him but I’m pleased about the boy we all went into the Inn now said Holmes something to eat first please then you can bring round the bicycle I haven’t got a bicycle said Mr Hayes Holmes put a pound on the
Table I tell you man that I haven’t got a bicycle you can have two horses to take you to the hall he brought us something to eat and we ate hungrily through the window we could see the stables at the back of the Inn once Holmes got up and walked round
The room then stood looking out of the window at the stair Stables surprisingly his foot was now very much better suddenly he laughed and looked at me I’ve got it he cried yes of course that’s it Watson did you see any cow tracks today yes I said lots of them
Everywhere and how many cows did you see on the moall I don’t remember any I said isn’t that strange Watson lots of cow tracks but no cows and do you remember those tracks Watson he took out his notebook there were tracks like this and sometimes like this and sometimes like
This do you remember that Watson no I don’t I said what does it mean Holmes it means that it’s a very strange cow Watson cows don’t move like that now let’s go quietly out out and have a look around these Stables there were two tired looking horses in the
Stables Holmes looked carefully at one of the horses feet and laughed look Watson old shoes but New Nails oh this case gets more interesting every minute I began to ask Holmes a question but suddenly we heard someone behind us and there was Mr Reuben Hayes his face was red and
Angry what are you doing in my Stables he cried we’re just looking at your horses Mr Hayes said Holmes smiling why are you afraid of something the man opened his mouth then closed it quickly his face was still red and angry Holmes did not give him time to
Speak I think your horses are tired Mr Hayes we can walk to the hall it’s not far 3 kilom by the road Mr Hayes said his eyes still watched us angrily it was nearly dark when we left we walked along the road for about 100 m then Holmes took my
Arm quick Watson off the road and up the hill then we can come down the hill at the back of the Inn we ran up the hill this man Hayes I said he knows all about the kidnapping is that right Holmes of course it is he
Said we can learn a lot more from Mr Hayes ah who’s this Watson get down there was a bicycle on the road it came past us very quickly and we saw the rider Mr James Wilder the Duke’s secretary his face was white and Afraid quick Watson said Holmes we must watch
Him we ran down the hill and stopped when we could see the back door of the Inn wild as bicycle was by the wall near the door for 5 minutes nothing happened then a man on a horse rode quickly out of the stables and disappeared down the
Road what do you think of that Watson said Holmes somebody’s running away yes but not James Wilder because there he is at the door we could see Wilder in the light from the door he stood there looking out and 10 minutes later another man came down the road and went into the
Inn then a light came on in a room upstairs come Watson we must get nearer Holmes said we went down the hill and walked very quietly to the back door of the Inn the bicycle was still by the wall Holmes looked at the wheel and laughed quietly a Dunlop Tire
Watson now I must look through that upstairs window so I need your back Watson Holmes stood on my back but only for a second and then he was down again come my friend he said it’s a long walk to the school so let’s start at
Once I can give you all the answers to this mystery tomorrow it was a long cold muddy walk back to the school I went to bed at once but Holmes went out again to mlon I think I was very tired and slept all night like a Dead Man chapter
6 Sherlock Holmes talks to the Duke at 11:00 the next morning Holmes and I were in the Duke’s office at holderness Hall Mr Wilder came to speak to us the Duke can see no one today he said to Holmes Holmes looked at him coldly the Duke can see me he said please tell him that I am
Here after half an hour the Duke of holderness came into the room he looked older tired and Ill well Mr Holmes he said Holmes looked at James Wilder I can speak more freely without your secretary here sir very well said the Duke tiredly please James James Wilder gave Holmes an angry
Look but he went out of the room and shut the door Holmes looked at the Duke you are offering I hear 5,000 for news of your son true and another ,000 for the name of the kidnapper true my friend smiled I see your checkbook on the table
Sir I would like to have your check for £6,000 Mr Sherlock Holmes The Duke said angrily what is this about do you have news of my son or not oh yes said Holmes The Duke’s eyes never left Holmes’s face where is my son he said
Quietly he is or was last night at the Green Man Inn 3 kilomet along the road to Chesterfield the Duke fell back in his chair and the name of the kidnapper Sherlock Holmes’s answer was a very surprising one you he said and now sir your check
Please the Duke stood up his face white and angry then he sat down again and put his face in his hands it was some minutes before he spoke how much do you know he asked I saw you with him last last night said Holmes and how many people know about
This only I and my friend here Dr Watson the Duke took out a pen opened his checkbook and began to write when I made this offer I didn’t know he stopped then began again are you and your friend going to talk about this Mr Holmes I don’t understand you sir said
Hommes I mean nobody needs to know about this this little family mystery just you and your friend Watson look here is my check for £12,000 Holmes gave him a cold little smile I’m sorry sir there is a dead man in this case you remember but that wasn’t James cried the
Duke he knew nothing about it he was very very unhappy when he heard about the The Killing murder said Holmes but James wasn’t there and when he heard about it he came to me at once and told me everything oh Mr Holmes you must help him you must he is not the
Murderer the murderer ran away last night Holmes smiled again I have a little more news for you sir the police met Mr Ruben Hayes last night at Chesterfield station Mr Hayes is not running anywhere for a very long time the Duke looked at Holmes with an open mouth you you know everything he
Said but I am pleased to hear about Hayes he was always a bad man and that news can only help James James your secretary said Holmes no sir my son James Wilder is my son chapter 7 the Duke’s Son when the Duke said this I was very surprised but Holmes was surprised too this is news to me he said can you tell me more the Duke stood up and walked around the room for a minute I must tell you everything he said I didn’t want to talk about it but
I must I see that now he sat down again and began his story when I was a young man Mr Holmes I was in love oh so much in love it only happens to you once and this woman was the love of my life I wanted her to be my wife but she
Died she left me this one child and I loved him because of her when I look in his face I see her and remember her and Can’t Stop Loving Her I must have the Boy near me because of this but a government Minister cannot tell the world about a love child like
This so to the world World James is my young secretary not my son he knows that I am his father he hates The Duchess because she is not his mother and he hates my younger son Arthur because Arthur has everything Arthur has a name a famous father houses money everything Everything James has
Nothing well he has some money of course but he is just Mr James Wilder and he wants to be the Duke of holderness one day that’s not possible of course but James can’t understand that and so you see I was afraid for Arthur and that’s why I sent him to Dr huxtable’s
School and what does James do next he kidnaps my poor Arthur it changes nothing but James can’t see that he wants me to say yes James now you can be my first son you can have everything Arthur can be the number two son but I can’t do that of course I
Can’t James knew this man Hayes you see because Hayes worked for me once James asked for Hayes’s help and the man was happy to do it you remember my letter to Arthur on that last day well James opened the letter and put in a note from him that evening he cycled across the
Moall and met Arthur in ragged Shore he talked about The Duchess Arthur’s mother she wants to see you he told Arthur she’s waiting on the mo come back at midnight and a man with a horse can take you to her of course poor Arthur wanted to see his mother so he
Came Hayes was there with two horses and they rode across the mo but the German teacher followed them and Hayes killed him Hayes then took Arthur to the green man well Mr Holmes I knew nothing about any of this until the murder James is a bad boy but he does not murder
People when he heard the news he came to me at once crying what could I do I didn’t want the world to know about this so James went down to the green man he told Hayes to run away because everybody knew about the murder now and knew the murderer’s name too
Hayes left at once later I went down and saw Arthur I left him there with Mrs Hayes because I couldn’t say anything to the police just then so Mr Holmes now you know everything H said Holmes you help a murderer you say nothing to the police
You leave your young son in a dirty Inn and you ask for my help people never spoke to the Duke of holderness like this usually his face was red but he said nothing first said Holmes we must bring Arthur home yes the Duke said quietly Holmes quickly wrote a note and
Took it out of the room room a minute later he was back now what are you going to do about Mr James Wilder he said I understand you Mr Holmes said the Duke James is leaving me and going to Australia next week good said Holmes and The Duchess perhaps without James in the
House you and she yes I wrote to The Duchess this morning Holmes stood up well he said Watson and I can go home now I think there is just one other small thing this man Hayes took two horses across the moall but the horse’s feet made the tracks of a cow in the
Mud how was is this possible the Duke looked surprised and thought for a minute then he went away and came back 2 minutes later with a glass box in His Hands In The Box were some horseshoes we found these shoes under the ground in the garden the Duke said
They are about 500 years old we think the holderness family has a long and interesting past Holmes opened the box and took out one shoe it was a shoe for a horse’s foot but it looked like a clo cow’s foot Holmes wet his finger and ran it round the bottom of the
Shoe a little mud came off on his finger thank you said Holmes he put the Horseshoe back in its box that shoe is the second most interesting thing in the north of England he said and the first asked the Duke Holmes took the check for £12,000 from the table and slowly put it
Into his notebook I am a poor man he said he looked lovingly at the notebook then put it carefully in his pocket